Leadership
International Board of Directors

Victor Nichols
Board Chair
Director of Bank of Hawaii

Kairus Tarapore
Vice Chair
Retired Chief Human Resource Officer, Xylem Inc. and current Board Member with Succeed Smart Inc. and The Child Center of New York

Jonathan Polin
Treasurer
Chief Executive Officer of atomos wealth

Matt Lewis
Secretary & Legal Counsel
Partner, White & Case

Dr. Tom Cheung
Director
Deputy Chief and Assistant Medical Director, Emergency Medicine – Lakeridge Health

Joseph W.Y. Chong
Director
Regional Executive Vice President, Asia and Managing Director, The Peninsula Hong Kong

Mike Densmore
Director
Founder & CEO, Unbridled Consulting

Tasia Filippatos
Director
President, Consumer Products, Games and Publishing. The Walt Disney Company

Niv Garih
Director
Executive Board Member, Alarko Group Of Companies and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alarko Carrier Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.Ş.

Dr. Kevin CH Lau
Director
Founding Executive Chairman, Trinity Medical Group Limited

Nina Maldonado
Director
CEO, Impact Communications

Derya Matras
Director
Vice President EMEA, Meta

Matthias Chika Mordi
Director
CEO, National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria and Chairman, United Capital PLC

Damian Thornton
Director
Managing Director, Piper Sandler
Senior Leadership Team

Luciano Manzo

Sylvia Hopkins Hanneman
Vice President
Events Strategy & Communications

Carly Galli
Technology & Innovation

Léna Quéromès
Finance & Administration

Fiona Kearney
Fundraising

Jenny Cook
Affiliate Development & Support
Medical Advisory Committee

Dr. Kevin Lau

Dr Douglas Scothorn

Dr Jeremy Lin

Dr Kai Ning Cheong
MBBS (HK), MRCPCH(UK), DTM&H (LSTM), FHKAM (Paed), FHKCPaed (Fellow in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases), Paediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, Hong Kong Children’s Hospital/Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.

Dr. Bethaney Kaye
DNP, Director of Medical Affairs, Make-A-Wish America.

Dr Marguerite A.W. Gorter-Stam
Surgeon, subsp. Oncology and pediatrics, (pediatric) palliative care specialist (HMS)

Joseph W.Y. Chong
Regional Executive Vice President, Asia and Managing Director, The Peninsula Hong Kong

Vassilios Papadakis MD PhD
Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Marianna V Vardinoyianni- ELPIDA Oncology Unit, Agia Sofia Children’s Hospital, Athens Greece

Dr Rasha Gamal
Director of Cairo University Specialized Pediatric Hospital – Abu Reesh Hospital

Dr Shahrukh K. Hashmi
Medical Director (Dean) of Research, SSMC / Mayo Clinic Abu Dhabi